Alireza Beigi's Account of the Second Session of the SUV Court: The Names of 153 Other Recipients of Vehicles Remain Unknown

A member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, who had previously been summoned to court for revealing that several members of the Iranian legislative body received a number of "SUVs," reported on the second session of his trial and announced that in addition to representatives and their close associates, "153 others" were also on the list of recipients. According to a report from the Telegram channel of the "Dolat Bahar" website, close to former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ahmad Alireza Beigi stated in his report on the second court session that he raised objections to the "competence of the court" and requested the presence of a jury and a "public" trial based on the law of "political crime." The second session of Alireza Beigi's trial was held on Sunday, July 25, in Branch 57-10 of the Government Employees Court on the charge of "spreading falsehoods." Alireza Beigi had previously asked the presiding board of the [Parliament] on May 6, "What is the connection between these seventy SUVs at the representatives' doorsteps and the impeachment of the Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade?" and emphasized: "On what basis were these vehicles given to these gentlemen?" He reiterated that during the impeachment of the "Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade" in 2022, vehicles were given to representatives through a contract, which bore the signature of the chair of the board of a company, which is "a woman in Kuhdasht, Lorestan" and is engaged in "animal husbandry," alongside the signature of the "Director General of Human Resources of the Parliament." Alireza Beigi further explained that statistics and information regarding "147 individuals," some of whom are "representatives" and the rest "employees or relatives and associates of representatives," are available, but since the contract was made for "300 vehicles," there is no information about the "153 other vehicles." Ali Salehi, the public and revolutionary prosecutor of Tehran, announced on May 18 the "summoning" and quick referral of this member of Parliament's case to the investigative branch for "examination and investigation." Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, the "Attorney General of the country," also stated that the complainant in this case is Reza Fatemi Amin, the former Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade. Alireza Beigi further stated that the fact that the "Supervisory Board on the Conduct of Representatives" has also deemed my action as "outside the frameworks related to representation" means that my behavior must have been based on "personal interest, related to personal life or personal business, etc.," while the subject cannot be separate from the duties and responsibilities of representation. This member of the Commission on Councils and Interior Affairs had reported on June 7 in an interview with the "Jamaran" website, affiliated with the office of the former Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, that his "microphone was turned off" in the Islamic Consultative Assembly and that he was "not allowed to speak." Previously, Voice of America had published a report showing that the company that transferred the vehicles to the members of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, despite appearing to be a "dummy" company with its owners lacking a history of company management, has traces of individuals and companies from a group of graduates of the government university "Imam Sadiq" and close to the current administrators of the Islamic Republic's government.